Word: darbhanga
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...such as cholera (already contracted by 15,000 Nepalis) and dysentery (currently infecting 5,000 people a day in Bangladesh) turning into full-blown epidemics. "This is just the beginning," says Dr. Sudhir Kumar as he distributes medicine and water-purifying tablets to refugees outside the Bihar city of Darbhanga, which has all but disappeared beneath a vast new lake...
From all over India's province of Bihar and across the border from Nepal, the blind and the nearly blind arrived on foot, by oxcart and crowded railway car. They had come for the seventh annual eye clinic at the town of Darbhanga (pop. 69,203). Some sang and some prayed as a troop of Boy Scouts, led by a betel-nut-chewing Scoutmaster with a voice like a sideshow barker's, herded them in & out of 20 weather-beaten tents that formed a temporary hospital. Their hospital beds were pallets of straw; their only covering...
Dust floated thickly in the air of the canvas tent that was Dr. Dass's operating theater in Darbhanga last week. Amid a raucous babble of several hundred patients, squatting on their haunches to await their turns at one of the makeshift operating tables, sweating coolies carried off postoperative patients at the rate of one a minute. As each new patient was placed on the table, an assistant washed the clouded eye with a mercury solution and applied a few drops of anesthetic. Then, while another assistant held a flashlight, the surgeon slipped his knife into the patient...
...poor to bid was the third Bourbon sister, 61-year-old Marie Alice Ildephonse Marguerite. Princess Del Prete, whom Don Jaime cut off with 12,000 francs a year. For ?15,000 the necklace passed into the hands of jewel-fancying Sir Kamesh-war Singh, Maharajah of Darbhanga, whose bodyguard of eight tall, turbaned, immaculate Indians has been one of London's sights since the Coronation...
...thanks to Editor Blanchard for straightening out the Brothers Shem Shur for TIME. Last week genial Brother Joodha had a plowed field at Darbhanga smoothed and 30,000 Darbhangans stood around to watch the Houston-Mt. Everest Expedition drop in from Purnea by plane for a ceremonial visit with H. R. H. After a sumptuous banquet and many speeches of congratulation, he next day paraded the mountain flyers to the field with a 37-elephant procession, silver and gold carriages, a monster drum and native band...
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